Conditions / Environments, Add-on'13 exhibition, will be on view until November 15 at the BSA Space in Boston. The exhibition features the work of the finalists along with selected proposals from the first phase of the competition. Please click here for more information on the exhibition and the BSA Space.
Images from the opening that took place on October 9:
Curatorial Statement:
Conditions
/ Environments brings together the results of Add-On’13, a competition for an
affordable accessory dwelling on the outer Cape. Reflecting back on the modern
architectural heritage of Cape Cod and considering the current conditions of
its towns, the competition sought for proposals for an Affordable Accessory
Dwelling. The competition intended to highlight some of the problems of the
region, its modern heritage as well as the urgency to engage with affordable
dwelling in a rural context. Perhaps most importantly, the competition arose
from the conviction that affordable housing deserves good design and sought for
inventive propositions for the problem.
Conceptual
premise
Dwellings
can be defined as conditioned environments. For example, in “A Home Is not a
House,” the architectural historian Reyner Banham mentioned the Cape Cod
cottage as an example of traditional American architecture’s tendency against
monumentality. Against the “hollow shell” of architecture, the “great outdoors”
stood as the monument. Banham suggested technologically conditioned
environments to be a possible way out of this dilemma. The hollow shell / great
outdoors relationship is more complex when considering the works of several
modern architects on Cape Cod. From Chermayeff to Breuer, a number of
architects and artists extended their own understandings of modernity to the
Cape as they experimented with the limits and boundaries of conditioned
environments. These works can be seen in light of today’s concern with resource
and energy conservation.
Design strategies
The
projects exhibited here explore AADUs as conditioned environments. Several
proposals have sought to create synthetic
landscapes, which are not framed views, but inhabited spaces. Several
others have used appropriation as a
strategy for making Banham’s “hollow shell” into a conditioned environment by
employing vernacular house types. Several architects and designers have
addressed the need for compactness
to decrease energy consumption and to tread lightly on an already fragile land
and infrastructure. Finally others have sought strategies of dispersion by creating varied modular
spaces that maintain a sense of interiority while expanding into the landscape.
The projects expand the notion of environment. Framed in terms of land
ownership, land use, changing demographics, and the needs of a community,
environment becomes legal and social. With the works presented here, Conditions
/ Environments displays new possibilities generated by AADUs in this region.
august, 2013
Add-on'13 opening reception in Wellfleet:
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august, 2013
august, 2013
And the winner is:
We are pleased to announce the results of the final jury for Add-on’13, affordable accessory dwelling for the outer Cape competition. After careful deliberations, the jury awarded the first place to CxMxD’s Oyster House entry.
The evaluation criteria were based on aesthetics, livability, buildability (coherence of design and detail), site strategy and the social space of the cluster proposal. The winning project by CxMxD addressed the cluster of three units as an outdoor space with communal qualities. The jury thought that the project has potential for further development in this context.
The jurying process included the public vote, which was considered as one jury member, and the jury members: Mary-Ann Agresti, Tulay Atak, Malachi Connolly, Kenneth Frampton, Peter McMahon, Duks Koschitz, William O'Brien Jr., Gary Sorkin, Anne Tate.
The exhibition, Conditions / Environments travels to The Boston Society of Architects headquarters in Boston opening early October.
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| Year'rounder House by Michael Alexander and David Shanks |
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| Loadingdock5 |
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| Dogtrot by WCA |
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| NaCl3 by Eric Rothfeder |
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| Niche by Matt Coffey, Shaun Morris and Jason Michael Fay |
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august, 2013
Exhibition and Reception
Add-On'13 Exhibition, Conditions / Environments opens today.
Please come and join us for the reception on August 13, 4-5:30 pm at Seaman's Bank, 2746 U.S. 6, Wellfleet, MA.
Add-On'13 will be ending the week of August 12th with an exhibition, public voting and final jury.
The exhibition, Conditions / Environments, brings
together selected proposals from the initial phase of the competition
along with the developed proposals of the finalists. The public will be
able to support their favorite project by voting at Seamans Bank,
Wellfleet, Monday, Aug. 12, 1pm-4pm. The exhibition will also be open Aug. 14, 15 and 16, 1pm-4pm and will travel to the Boston Society of Architects gallery in October.
We are happy to announce that the following architects and designers will be taking part in the exhibition in addition to the finalists:
Brian Burtch
Cobalt Office (Robert Booth and Andrew Colopy)
Edward R. Ford
Ferentinos Architecture with Matthew Bunza and Timothy Cooke
french2d (Anda and Jenny French)
Stephanie Grandjacques
Erik Herrmann
Katerina Kourkoula and Eduardo Rega
Liminal Projects (Katherine Hobert, Laura Garofalo Khan and Omer Khan)
LO-TEK (Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano)
Tyler Mclauchlan
Meghan O'Reilly-Lyman, Christopher Lyman and Brian Montanio
ZeroEnergy Design (Stephanie Horowitz, Jordan Goldman, Jamie Maloney, Adam Prince)
The exhibition will take place between August 12-18 in Wellfleet and will then travel to the BSA Gallery in Boston.
PLEASE JOIN US FOR THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE WINNER, EXHIBITION AND RECEPTION
Seaman's Bank, 2746 U.S. 6, Wellfleet, MA
Seaman's Bank, 2746 U.S. 6, Wellfleet, MA
August 13, 2013
Public Reception, 4pm-5:30pm
Announcement of winner will be made at 5 pm
Announcement of winner will be made at 5 pm
Reception for Participants and Sponsors, 5:30 pm
Winslow's Tavern, Wellfleet
Hors D'oeuvres provided. Cash bar.
Winslow's Tavern, Wellfleet
Hors D'oeuvres provided. Cash bar.
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june, 2013
Exhibition participants june, 2013
We are happy to announce that the following architects and designers will be taking part in the exhibition in addition to the finalists:
Brian Burtch
Cobalt Office (Robert Booth and Andrew Colopy)
Edward R. Ford
Ferentinos Architecture with Matthew Bunza and Timothy Cooke
french2d (Anda and Jenny French)
Stephanie Grandjacques
Erik Herrmann
Katerina Kourkoula and Eduardo Rega
Liminal Projects (Katherine Hobert, Laura Garofalo Khan and Omer Khan)
LO-TEK (Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano)
Tyler Mclauchlan
Meghan O'Reilly-Lyman, Christopher Lyman and Brian Montanio
ZeroEnergy Design (Stephanie Horowitz, Jordan Goldman, Jamie Maloney, Adam Prince)
The exhibition will take place between August 12-18 in Wellfleet and will then travel to the BSA Gallery in Boston.
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june, 2013
june, 2013
Exhibition
We have expanded our funding efforts to organize the Add-on'13 exhibition. We have informed the selected participants and will post their names soon. The exhibition will take place in Wellfleet during the time of the final jury and will travel to the BSA (Boston Society of Architects) in Boston.
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may, 2013
Phase Two
The finalists have presented their projects at the public forum Wellfleet Public Library on May 26. With a great turnout, the exchange was lively.
Some of the topics that were discussed have been incorporated into the requirements for Phase Two. Please check out the updated page and the news on Cape Cod News: www.capecodonline.com
Below are some images of the event. (Thank you Kat Williams for the photographs.)
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may, 2013
Wellfleet Forum - May 26th
We are excited about the Wellfleet Forum on May 26th. It will be at the Wellfleet Library, 55 West Main St. and will allow the finalists to meet with local citizens and members of town boards, which regulate and promote affordable housing. People potentially interested in building AADU's are welcome to come by.
After an introduction and explanation of the competition, the finalists will have five minutes to briefly present their proposals. A discussion will follow in which everyone can ask questions and share information. The event is sponsored by the Wellfleet Community Forum.
We will be using insights gathered at the Forum to refine the requirements for the single and mini-cluster specifications in Phase 2. The site plan for the mini-cluster lot has finally been determined. The city has actually proposed affordable housing on this lot and for the purpose of the competition, the finalists will assume that the lot is empty.
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may, 2013
The six projects for Phase Two
Here are the six finalist projects by alphabetical order. Please click on the images to see the larger versions.
Cantilever by Loadingdock5 (Sam Bargetz, Gabriele Moritz, Werner Morath):
Dogtrot by WCA (Donald Chong, Betsy Williamson and Shane Williamson):
NaCl3 House by Eric Rothfeder:
Niche by Matt Coffey Jason Michael Fay and Shaun Morris:
Oyster House by C x M x D (Christopher Lee, Mengyi Fan and Dungjai Pungauthaikan):
Year'rounder House by Alexander + Shanks (Michael Alexander and David Shanks):
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march, 2013
We want to thank
everyone who participated in the competition. We received well over 100
submissions and the jury has made its decision regarding the six
finalists. We will upload these projects to the this site soon.
We received so many strong proposals that we have decided to
organize an exhibition as we believe that many projects should be seen and discussed publicly. We will notify the teams whose projects
we would like to include in the exhibition next week, once we determine
the exhibition space capacity.
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december, 2012
Add-on: A two-phase competition for a freestanding, affordable, accessory dwelling unit on Cape Cod, 2013
This two-phase competition seeks design proposals for a freestanding, affordable, accessory dwelling unit on outer Cape Cod. We hope to bring together local experts and the broader design community in order to develop fresh thinking about housing, resource conservation, and the relationship between the natural and built environment. Add-on is a way to consider the role of affordable housing in a context outside the city and re-envision the relationship between architecture, infrastructure, resources and land.
Cape Cod is an environmentally fragile piece of land projecting out into the Atlantic Ocean from New England's coast. The landscape and vegetation have changed along with settlement patterns. Currently, the scarcity and high cost of undeveloped land along with the area's changing demographics have caused a lack of affordable housing which threatens the region's diversity and economic health. At the same time the Cape's delicate freshwater aquifer is threatened by overuse and contamination.
While, in general, development has followed traditional rural/suburban patterns of a one family house per building lot, it's clear that there is a need to begin exploring new paradigms in the coming decades. The outer Cape has a rich history of architectural innovators such as Marcel Breuer and Serge Chermayeff who both spent much of their careers thinking about community and low cost housing. The works of these and other architects provide a rich heritage of building experimentation.
Accessory Dwellings
The town of Wellfleet has sought to encourage an incremental increase in affordable rental housing through an Accessory Dwelling bylaw which allows a second living unit to be built on the lot of an existing home, provided it has the septic capacity. Participating property owners in Wellfleet commit to renting these units at an affordable rate. There is financial support through tax relief and grants for homeowners who participate. Wellfleet, today, has 11 accessory dwellings.
A Two Phase Competition
In Phase One, participants are invited to submit innovative designs for a freestanding, 800-sf one-bedroom unit. The proposal should include strategies for limiting the use of local resources and energy. Submissions will be accepted via email.
In Phase Two, finalists will develop their designs and propose construction strategies that are suitable for local needs and a modest budget. The proposals will include a conceptual idea for cluster housing.
Finalists chosen by the jury will be hosted for a week-long residency in either the Kugel/Gips House or the Hatch Cottage, two significant modern houses restored by the Cape Cod Modern House Trust (CCMHT). Following site visits and a tour of local, modern houses, a public forum will provide a platform where designers, local officials and potential clients, such as interested property owners and renters, will share information and concerns.
The final jury will meet August 13th to choose a first-place winner, who will receive a cash prize. There will also be two honorable methentions. The public will have the opportunity to cast ballots and the jury will consider the vote. The finalists' projects will be displayed at the Wellfleet Library, Boston Society of Architects (BSA) gallery in Boston. The exhibit may also travel to other locations on the Cape and Islands.
Why Add-on 13?
Affordable housing is worthy of good design. With Add-on '13, we invite designers to address the pressing issue of rural affordable housing in inventive ways. We hope to encourage home-owners to consider building units on their land. We also hope to interest other towns on the Cape to pass bylaws which can allow for accessory dwellings that provide a way to increase rental units in an incremental and diffuse way.
Eligibility
The competition is open to designers, architects, builders and students, who live in the United States. Participants can work individually or in teams.
Please send an email to: addon2013@gmail.com if you intend to participate in the competition. You will be notified on updates and news.
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